Speakers

Dr. Josette Biyo (Keynote Speaker)
Director, Philippine Science High School-Western Visayas Campus; First Filipino Winner of the Intel International Science Teaching Competition and the First Filipino to have a planet named after her

Dr. Maria Cynthia Rose B. Bautista
Professor of Sociology, former Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy – University of the Philippines and former Director of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies

Dr. Allan B.I. Bernardo
Professor of Cognitive and Educational Psychology and University Fellow of De La Salle University, President of the ASEAN Regional Union of the Psychological Societies and Secretary-General of the Asian Association of Social Psychology

Dr. Maria Serena I. Diokno
Professor of History, faculty affiliate of the Center for International Studies at the University of the Philippines and honorary fellow at the Cairns Institute, James Cook University

Dr. Richard K. Gordon
Professor of Education at the California State University Dominguez Hills. USA, member of the Japan and US Teacher Education Consortium (JUSTEC), and served as a member of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education – Global and International Teacher Education Committee

Dr. Jose W. Lalas
Professor of Literacy and Teacher Education, Director of the University of Redlands’ Institute for Educational Justice and elected school board member of the Corona-Norco Unified School District, California, USA

Dr. Dina Joana S. Ocampo
Professor of Reading Education and Dean of the University of the Philippines – College of Education, recipient of The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (2007) and the Metrobank Outstanding Teacher Award (2009)

Dr. Reyes L. Quezada
Professor of Education and Director of Curriculum and Teaching Graduate Programs at the University of San Diego, governing board member of the International Council for the Education of Teachers (ICET), and immediate Past President of the California Council on Teacher Education

Dr. B. Gloria G, Johannessen
Professor of Education at the Texas State University – San Marcos and coordinator of bilingual and second language programs